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- AcoustID
- an acoustic fingerprint system built entirely on open-source technology
- Advanced Relationship
- See: Relationship
- Alias
- Name variants, generally used to improve search results
- Annotation
- A text field that can be added to any existing entity, used to add information that doesn't fit into the strict structural data schema of MusicBrainz
- Artist
- Any individual (or group of individuals) contributing to the works described in the MusicBrainz Database
- Artist credit
- An artist's name as it appears on a particular release, generally used to display minor name variations (not "performance names") and collaborations
- Artist name
- The official name of an artist, following artist name style
- Artist type
- Indicates whether a particular artist is a (for example) an individual or a group
- Auto-editor (or Automod)
- An experienced MusicBrainz editor who has been given certain elevated privleges
- Bot
- An automated process, often controlled by an editor, that submits edits to the database
- CD stub
- CSG
- The Classical Style Guide, as set of guidelines for entering classical releases in MusicBrainz
- An entity used to store incomplete, anonymously submitted releases outside the main database
- Begin and End Dates
- Indicates a date or range of dates relevant to a particular relationship or entity
- Disambiguation comment
- used to help distinguish (disambiguate) identically named artists, labels and other entities
- Disc ID
- A (nearly) unique identifier for compact discs calculated from the TOC, represented as a string of ascii characters
- Example: XzPS7vW.HPHsYemQh0HBUGr8vuU-
- Edit
- An individual change made to the data stored by MusicBrainz
- Edit note
- A comment attached to an edit by an editor or by ModBot
- Editor
- A contributor to the MusicBrainz database (or to the wiki)
- Entity
- An "object" in the database (such as an Artist or Release), which can be linked to other entities using relationships
- Fingerprint
- A unique identifier for a recording, generated from the content of the recording itself
- FRBR
- The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, a model for bibliographic data, proposed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- See also: Acoustic fingerprint
- Imprint
- The logo used by a record label to identify itself
- Label
- Usually a MusicBrainz "label" corresponds to an imprint. Labels can also be used to store information about the companies and corporations that control those imprints.
- Label Code
- A code that uniquely identifies a record company or label, printed on the release itself, usually formatted as "LC-xxxx" (where "xxxx" is a four or five digit number)
- Label country
- Label type
- Legal name
- MBID
- Medium
- Medium format
- Metadata
- This can refer either to "descriptive metadata" (i.e. information about information) or to "structural medatata" (i.e. information about how information is stored). The contents of the MusicBrainz database are primarily "descriptive metadata".
- ModBot
- A bot used by the MusicBrainz Server to perform a variety of automated functions
- Moderator
- An older MusicBrainz term for Editor. cf. automod
- Multi-disc release
- NGS
- "Next Generation Schema" refers to the updated database schema released on 18 May 2011.
- The update, with a corresponding revision of the style guidelines, was considered a major milestone in the development of Musicbrainz. Hence, it's not uncommon to describe certain relationships, style-related practices and UI elements as being either "pre-" or "post-NGS".
- See also: NGS (History), NGS Roadmap, Preparing for NGS, Release Announcement, Release Notes
- Performance name
- PUID
- Recording
- Relationship
- Release
- Release date
- Release Group
- Sort name
- Standalone recording
- Tags
- 1. Usually refers to ID3 tags, which are metadata embedded in an audio file
- 2. Within the database, "tag" refers to a "folksonomy tagging", a system for collaboratively describing or classifying entities in the database.
- TOC
- "Table of Contents", the area of an optical disc that describes the tracklist in terms of track durations
- Work
- The FRBR defines the work entity as "a distinct intellectual or artistic creation".
